2015 - Diner en Blanc - Washington - Press Release

More than 2,500 people attended Washington D.C.’s second annual Diner en Blanc Saturday evening, August 29, 2015. Diner en Blanc is a secret dinner party that encourages participants to dress in white. Guests were required to bring a table, two white chairs, a white tablecloth, a picnic basket of fine food, proper stemware, and white dinnerware. The guests gathered at staging areas all over D.C. Saturday without knowledge of their final destination - the grounds of the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square. Groups converged on the square and set up their place settings for a fine dining experience in the great outdoors. Dinner started with the traditional waving of the white napkins and concluded with a ceremonial sparkler lighting. Then the dance party began! (C) Photography by Vita Images and Jennifer Heffner Photography

Diner en Blanc 2015

More than 2,500 people attended Washington D.C.’s second annual Diner en Blanc Saturday evening, August 29, 2015. Diner en Blanc is a secret dinner party that encourages participants to dress in white. Guests were required to bring a table, two white chairs, a white tablecloth, a picnic basket of fine food, proper stemware, and white dinnerware.

The guests gathered at staging areas all over D.C. Saturday without knowledge of their final destination - the grounds of the Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square. Groups converged on the square and set up their place settings for a fine dining experience in the great outdoors.

Dinner started with the traditional waving of the white napkins and concluded with a ceremonial sparkler lighting. Then the dance party began!